cnn's ivan watson has managed to get back inside syria. here's what he found in a town just outside aleppo. >> reporter: this bullet-riddled town is mostly deserted except for rebels and a few shell-shocked residents. this street was nicknamed the street of death, because anybody who set foot on here was likely to be shot. the retreating government troops left behind a mini graveyard of burned-out armored vehicles. and pro-regime graffiti with a terrifying warning. the words say either assad or we'll burn this city. >> another sign of how bad things have become. according to the u.n. more than 10,000 iraqi refugees who'd sought refuge in syria returned to iraq in the last week. it is that dangerous. ivan watson joins me now from inside syria. ivan, i want to ask you something that you witnessed, that you were able to videotape. a man basically kind of pleading for his life and then being kind of man handled and taken away. do you know what happened to that person or what he was accused of doing? >> well, the rebels told us that he was a su